Believe in Your Magic Reality is crumbling all around Irving Bell as he anxiously sits on his favorite beach in Hawaiʻi. He is at a dangerous crossroads as he nears the completion of his latest novel, Triumph —the book he feels he was born to write. After strange threats and suspicious near-death experiences, he questions everything he ever thought he knew. He begins to believe that the little magical beings he is writing about—the Menehune, who are rumored to be secretly living in the mountains—might actually be real and are trying to stop him from exposing their story to the public. Two centuries prior, a young Henry ʻŌpūkahaʻia lies in a bed in New England, dying from typhus fever, a world away from the island he grew up on. The foul-mouthed Menehune boys, who have been sworn to protect Henry on this journey, quietly watch this tragedy unfold from the attic. ʻŌpūkahaʻia’s heathen counterpart, Thomas Hopoo, who sailed aboard the Triumph with him in 1808, will pick up Henry’s biblical torch and eventually return home to become the first-ever Hawaiian missionary. The band of Menehune, forever changed by the mainland, return to their own village and don’t get the hero’s welcome they had anticipated; they must make a life-altering decision.